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The Yahrzeit is a unique day on the Jewish calender marking the one year anniversary of a loved one's passing. | The Yahrzeit is a unique day on the Jewish calender marking the one year anniversary of a loved one's passing. | ||
==Fasting on the | ==Kaddish== | ||
# There is a custom to fast on the day of a parent's death (yahrtzeit), every year following the death. This fast should be observed on the date of the death itself, even for the first year. <ref> [http://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/767229/Rabbi_Eliyahu_Ben-Chaim/Hilchot_Aveilut_Hilchot_Kadish# Rabbi Eliyahu Ben-Chaim minutes 4-6] </ref> | # The custom is to recite kaddish on the yahrtzeit of a parent. <ref> Rama YD 376:4 </ref> | ||
# One should start reciting kaddish on the friday night before the yahrtzeit. <ref> Kaf Hachaim 55:23 </ref> | |||
==Aliya to the Torah== | |||
# One should try to go up to the torah for maftir on the Shabbat before the yahrtzeit of a parent. <ref> Birkei Yosef 284:1 </ref> | |||
==Fasting on the Day of the Yahrzeit== | |||
# There is a custom to fast on the day of a parent's death (yahrtzeit), every year following the death. <ref>Rama YD 402:12, Pri Megadim MZ OC 568:8 <br /> | |||
* Levush YD 402:12 writes that since unfortunate things have happened to the person on that day, it should be a day of teshuva and introspection for him<br /> | |||
* Levush OC 685 writes that the reason to fast is to earn reward for the parent on this day of judgment for them </ref> This fast should be observed on the date of the death itself, even for the first year. <ref> [http://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/767229/Rabbi_Eliyahu_Ben-Chaim/Hilchot_Aveilut_Hilchot_Kadish# Rabbi Eliyahu Ben-Chaim minutes 4-6] </ref> Some poskim are not so strict with this fast because we are too weak to fast, and therefore encourage giving tzedaka and making an extra effort to learn torah <ref> Minchat Yitzchak 6:135 </ref> | |||
# If [[Erev Yom Kippur]] is the Yahrzeit (annual remembrance of the day of the death) of one's parents, one should not fast but rely on the fast of [[Yom Kippur]]. <ref>Maamer Mordechai (Rav Mordechai Eliyahu, English version pg 447, #17)</ref> | # If [[Erev Yom Kippur]] is the Yahrzeit (annual remembrance of the day of the death) of one's parents, one should not fast but rely on the fast of [[Yom Kippur]]. <ref>Maamer Mordechai (Rav Mordechai Eliyahu, English version pg 447, #17)</ref> | ||
==Yahrtzeit Candle== | |||
# The custom is to light a candle on the yahrtzeit of a parent. <ref> Magen Avraham OC 261:6 writes that if one forgot to light it earlier, he can ask a non-Jew to light a yahrtzeit candle during bein hashemashot. </ref> | |||
# Some poskim say that you cannot use an electric light as a yahrtzeit candle. <Ref> Mishneh Halachot 5:70. See there however, where he quotes that Chacham Ovadia Yosef does in fact allow using an electric light. </ref> | |||
==Wedding Celebrations== | |||
# One should avoid going to a wedding celebration on the yahrtzeit of a parent. <ref> Rama YD 391:3, Yalkut Yosef Kitzur S"A 2:274 says if possible even sepharadim should be stringent for this even though it is only mentioned by the Rama</ref> | |||
==Links== | |||
* [http://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/774763/Rabbi_Aryeh_Lebowitz/Ten_Minute_Halacha_-_Yahrtzeit:_Laws_and_Customs Ten Minute Halacha - Yahrtzeit: Laws and Customs] and Rabbi Aryeh Lebowitz | |||
* Article on [http://rabbikaganoff.com/fasting-and-feasting-on-a-yahrtzeit/ Fasting and Feasting on a Yahrtzeit] by Rabbi Yirmiyahu Kaganoff | |||
* Article on [http://www.torahmusings.com/2014/07/yahrtzeit-practices/ Yahrtzeit Practices] by Rabbi Dovid Roth | |||
==Sources== | ==Sources== | ||
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[[Category:Mourning]] | [[Category:Mourning]] | ||
